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Conference & Workshop Social Cities of Tomorrow.
Social Cities of Tomorrow is an international conference & workshop on new media & urban design we co-organized in February 2012. Check out the conference website for extensive documentation, a wrap up, reports and videos of the event!
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A strong social city.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ On Thursday night the four groups presented their results and prototypes that they had been respectively working on during the workshops. The event, which took place at Mediamatic, was completely sold out. “When you do an image search for the query smart city”– Martijn from the Mobile City began explaining to the audience—“mostly…
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Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 2]
by LAURENT HUBEEK On the evening of Thursday the 16th of February the workshop teams presented their results at Mediamatic. This post will be about teams 3 and 4. The reports on teams 1 and 2 can be found here. With the presentations of team 1 and 2 over, it was time for team 3 to…
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Workshop Presentations @ Mediamatic [Part 1]
by LAURENT HUBEEK The report on the presentations of teams 3 and 4 can be found here. For the last few days now, our four teams have been hard at work coming up with ideas, concepts and solutions for each of their cases. Tonight Mediamatic hosted the final event of the workshop program. In front of…
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Combined skills.
by NATALIA SANCHEZ The week began with the contrasting view of the semi-frozen canal and the taste of warm coffee. Once everyone arrived at the ground floor of ARCAM, and as it is accustomed in this type of event, the introductory presentation and quick welcome to the participants were followed by a round of individual…
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The Workshop Update!
by LAURENT HUBEEK Today was day 2 of the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. Work on all four of the cases is now well underway and we thought it would a good idea to ask the teams for a quick update on how they’re doing. So, around lunch time today, the halfway point for all workshop…
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Play Noord! Gaming and City Planning
by NICOLA What does bottom-up participation in city design actually mean? That’s one of the questions emerging from Ekim Tan’s presentation at ARCAM today, preceding the second day of workshops at the Social Cities of Tomorrow event. The Istanbul-born, Netherlands-based designer, founder of the Responsive City research network, introduced Play Noord!, a gaming approach at bottom-up…
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How to Design for ‘Ownership’ rather than for ‘Smart Cities’
How do we design urban technologies that engage and empower ‘publics’ (groups of people) to act on communally shared issues? That is the main theme of a new study (in Dutch) launched by The Mobile City and Virtueel Platform.
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Cities of the Future
by LAURENT HUBEEK The home page of the Social Cities of Tomorrow website opens with the following statement: “Our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologies, from smart cards and intelligent GPS systems to social media and smartphones. How can we use digital media technologies to make our cities more social, rather than just…
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CALL for projects: Spontaneous Interventions US pavilion @Architecture Biennale 2012. Deadline: 6 Feb. 2012
This is an interesting call, many overlaps with the ‘commons’ themes addressed in our Social Cities of Tomorrow conference: Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good is the theme of the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale (Fall 2012). In recent years, there has been a nascent movement of designers acting on…
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CfP: MAS Context special issue about ‘ownership’, deadline Jan. 9 2012
Something is in the air.. This is a call from MAS Context. MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive view of a single topic through the active participation of people from different fields and different perspectives who, together, instigate the debate. Our next…